The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-05-19
UEyTS OF THE WEEK.


EVENTS OF THE WEEK,
Domestic News
The Haythien and English governments
have settled al their difficulties, and the
former has paid the latter $4,000.
The Wool Growers and international
Sheep Hhearers' Association will hold their
second annual convention in st. Louis.
News has been received at San Francisco,
that the steamer Brenton was run into and
osnk by the Fair Of Penang on the Indian
mccain, and LEO people were lost.
BY vote Of So to ~ the Mich igan house
passed tho high license bill. The general
tax 10 placed at 500 and on wholesale and
retail establishments it Is $500.
Drillers at the big gas we'll southeast Of
the city Of Findlay, O., drilled in . gasser
with capacity Of 2O,O0O.eO0 cubic feet Of
gas daily, the biggest in the world.
l A seizure Of $4,000 worth Of smuggled
opium was made at San Francisco, CAL, by
customs officers, on the 18th. The contraband
shipment was made from Hong Kong.
The captain OF British ship reports In
London that the crew Of the American ship
Accidental had mutinied, that the captain
had been killed, and the ship was in charge
Of the mate.
John B. Finch, chairman Of the national
committee Of the Prohibition party, will &C
10 Texas to stump the state in favor Of the
pr0htbttOry constitutional amendment. he
3 now flooding the state with prohibition
| literature.
The controller Of tho currency on the 9th,
authorised the Western National Bank Of
the City Of New York to begin business
with . capital Of $3,5OO,O0O. The officers
dinand Blankinham, cashier.
There II considerable talk in Ottawa Of
testing the feeling Of parliament on thu
question OF commercial union with the
| United States. The members from the
| are almost . unit on the question.
Martin Bout, while blowing on his farm
near Michigan City, Ind, exploded I
| dynamite bomb which had been placed
there by unknown parties. His arm we,
otherwise terribly mangled. He win hardly
| recover.
Tho 70 Irish constables who resigned
their ONCE because they were compelled K
carry on evictions, and who arrived in New
| York last week, announced their intention
ofbecoming citizens of the United States by
6lling their application papers in the cour,
Of common pleas.
| The United States revenue cutter Richard
Rush has been ordered to proceed to Sitka
Alaska, where she win take the United
States Marshal aboard and convey him tt
! Onlaska for the purpose Of selling ct auc
/ ton the British schOOners seized in the Behr
ing strait last year for illegal seal fishing.
:rJustice Woods, OF the United State,
Supreme court, returned to Washingtoz
! from California few days since. and Ia,
| grown worse since his return. He 10 nov
lying critically III at his residence, and hii
death may occur at any moment He Il
suffering from dropsy and complicatton o
diseases.
A cyclone struck Blue Springs, Gag,
county, Neb., Friday afternoon, and blew
down . shcool house from which tn
children had Just been dismissed. w. II
Rusburgh, the janitOr, was killed. Several
other houses were demolished. Mrs. Will
Matthews was killed by lightning during
the storm.
Thursday afternoon. at Pittsburg. Pa.
Andrew Maloney, employed on the nev
court house. carelessly stepped from
stone elevator when 155 feet from tn
ground. When picked up there was scarcel.
Q whole bone in his body. He was conscious
however, and sent message to his wife an,
family. Shortly after removal to tn
hospital he died.
Two Chicago barb wire fence houses a
signed at Chicago on the 10TH Mr.. Marsh
q member Of both firms, gave a. the i'm
mediate cause Of the failure the operation
Of the interstate commerce act He said
"That bill has had the effect of simply shut
ting us out. We could not go out Of Chico
60 with our products and hope 70 do bnsi
t The Ia:
anything but profitable for the last thre
years. There has been too much 0ver-pro
duction in barb wire fencing"
The earthquake May created sad havo
In the northwestern portion OF Sonora
Mexico. The portion Of tho state is "a
from railroad or telegraphic communities
ton. The following dispatch was receives
May 6, from Luis e. Torres, governor Q
Sonora: 'sThe earthquake caused terribl
damages to Nostaxeuma. destroying sew
part suffered the most terribly. yOptu hal
all 1t houses destroyed and Bahispe wa
utterly destroyed, I'D people being killed
The house were levsled to the ground.
new volcano appeared, and it, eruption
destroyed al the timber Of the adjoining
arc expected hourly" The volcano men
toned In this dispatch i In the famou
Sierra Nadrs mountains.
Miss Henrietta Hampstead, aged 10,
most estimable young lady, was sho
through the heart. diving instantly, on Sun
day, on the farm Of her uncle, Capt. jaime
Blackburn, Ct Spring station, Ky. Mis-
Henrietta Blackburn, accompanied BY. he
cousin. Miss Hempstoaa, went out to shoe
at mark with . small rife. They wer
joined by Samuel Blackburn, . young ma
Of 2, brother of Miss Henrietta Blackburn
and . friendly contention was begun .: 7
} who should shoot 1T the mark first. Th
three engaged In : playful struggle tor th
possession Of the rife, and in this struggl
the weapon was discharged. The ur
fortunate young lady gave slight scream
|, Last before her horrified cousins realized th
awful calamity that had befallen then
Messengers woro hurTiedly dispatched 70
medical and other assistance, and Il va
with tho utmost difficulty that Miss Blacl
restored from The shock occasioned BY u
unexpected and tssstble death Of the youn
Lady.
Political and Personal.
Over 5000 immigrants arrived ct Cast
Garden, N. T., Friday.
Editor O'Brien had Q most enthusiast
reception ct Quebec.
Actor John T. Raymond's wife and chill
win receive only 5000 from his estate.
The monument to Gen. Sedgwick was a,
yelled at Spettsylvauia, Va, on the 18th.
The Illinois Legislature has increased Ii
number Of Aldermen ct Chicago from s. I
t8.
]. w. Holcombo Of Indiana has bee
appointed chief clerk Of the bureau {
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